A framework for proactive assistance: Summary

Advanced Driving Assistance Systems usually provide assistance to drivers only once a high risk situation has been detected. Indeed, it is difficult for an embedded system to understand driving situations, and to predict early enough that it is to become uncomfortable or dangerous. Most of ADAS work assume that interactions between road entities do not exist (or are limited), and that all drivers react in the same manner in similar conditions. We propose a framework that enables to fill these gaps. On one hand, an ontology which is a conceptual description of entities present in driving spaces is used to understand how all the perceived entities interact together with the subject vehicle, and govern its behavior. On the other hand, a dynamic Bayesian Network enables to estimate the driver situation awareness with regard to the perceived objects, based on the ontology inferences, map information, driver actuation and driving style.